Community Safety

The United States Sports Academy (USSA) is committed to maintaining a safe and positive learning experience. When students experience acts of sexual violence or misconduct, their sense of safety and trust is violated. This can significantly interfere with their lives, including their educational goals.

Students are strongly encouraged to report all incidents that threaten the student’s continued well-being, safety, or security. USSA personnel will assist the student in notifying authorities, if requested.

USSA’s Sexual Misconduct Policy has been developed to proactively create an environment in which incidents of sexual misconduct can be promptly and effectively responded to without further victimization, retaliation, and with possible remediation of its effects.

USSA’s Sexual Misconduct Policy

USSA is committed to maintaining an academic climate in which individuals of the academy community have access to an opportunity to benefit fully from USSA’s programs and activities. This policy has been developed to proactively create a campus environment in which incidents of sexual misconduct can be promptly and effectively responded to without further victimization, retaliation, and with possible remediation of its effects. Find additional information, by reviewing the USSA Academic Catalogs.

An Overview of Regulatory Drivers

Title IX is a federal law intended to protect people from discrimination based on gender or sex in all areas of education. It is the regulatory framework that guides USSA’s Sexual Misconduct Policy. For more information about Title IX, please visit the US Department of Justice Title IX Overview page.

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is a federal law aimed at ending violence against women and protecting victims of domestic violence, dating violence, asexual assault, and stalking. For more information about VAWA, please visit the US Department of Justice Violence Against Women.